At risk of putting too fine a point on it, Blumhouse’s “Fantasy Island” is pretty much everything that’s wrong with contemporary commercial moviemaking. It’s a big-screen adaptation of a justly forgotten television show, “reimagined” for a contemporary audience by removing all but the barest skeleton of its inspiration and fleshing it out with the spare parts of other, unrelated properties. The original, seven-season ABC television series was a corny, soapy ‘80s prime-time drama (a product of the Aaron Spelling factory) about, well, an island where fantasies come true; this is what was called a “high concept,” apparently because you could understand it even if you were high. 

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